An Enhanced Cryptography for ECG Steganography to Satisfy HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulation for Bio-Medical Datas
P. Predeep Kumar1 and E. Babu Raj21Research Scholar, St. Peter’s University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
2Principal, N S College of Engineering, Kanyakumari Dist., Tamilnadu, India.
Corresponding Author E-mail: sppredeep@gmail.com
Abstract: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA) privacy and security regulations are two crucial provisions in the protection of healthcare privacy. According to HIPAA patient information sent through the internet should be protected and secured. In this paper, to comply with the HIPAA regulations, chaos cryptographic technique is used to encrypt the confident data into unreadable form. After the data decryption process, the encrypted data concealment in ECG signals.A wavelet basedsteganography technique is used to merge the encrypted patient confident data with the host ECG signal. To examine the performance of the proposed technique, Percentage Residual Difference (PRD) a distortion measurement technique is used. The proposed technique brings formidable security protection for bio-medical data with low distortion (less than 1% ) and ECG signal remains diagnosable after watermarking and as well as after watermarks are detach from the watermarked signal
Keywords: ECG; Steganography; Encryption; Wavelet; Watermarking; Confidentiality Back to TOC